Ina Wagner is Professor for Multidisciplinary Systems Design and Computer-Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) and Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Design. She holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Vienna.

She has edited and written numerous books and authored over 150 papers on a variety of technology-related issues, amongst them computer-support of hospital work and of architectural design and planning, with a strong focus on CSCW issues, a feminist perspective in science and technology, ethical and political issues in systems design. In her approach to the design of IT systems she combines ethnographic studies of work with design interventions and user participation. This also engages sociological interest in work and occupations, organization, management and technology.

A focus of her research is on the implications of information technology for the practice and quality of health care within hospitals. She was involved as a research partner and consortium member in project ’Technology and Health Information in the New Economy’, financed by the Canadian Social Sciences Research Council. She has performed case studies on spatially distributed co-operative work (tele-working) in a variety of companies and settings, and, recently, on the careers of women in innovative companies in the fields of architecture, multimedia production, and financial services. She was principal contractor in IST-2001-34520 Project WWW-ICT Widening Women’s Work in Information and Communication Technology (2002-2004) and she was subcontractor for ethical reviewing in QLRT-2001-00458 Project Friendly Restrooms for Elderly People (2002-2005).

One of her main current interests focuses on design work, on creative design methods, and on the multi-disciplinary design of computer systems in support of design practice. She has been co-ordinator of ESPRIT LTR Project DESARTE The computer-supported design of artefacts and spaces in architecture: landscape architecture (1998-2001), principal partner in IST-2000 ATELIER Architecture and Technologies for Inspirational Learning Environments (2001-2004), and is continuing this line of research within Integrated Project IPCity (2006-2010). As part of these projects she addresses key issues of the design of mixed media environments. A particular focus of this research is on understanding materiality and embodied interaction within physical space. Another focus is on supporting collaborative and participatory forms of imagining and envisioning interventions in an (urban) context

From 1995 to 1997 she was Chair of the Equal Opportunity Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture. From 1997 to 2000 she was Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies. She is member of the Austrian Bioethics Committee since 2001. She currently holds an Adjunct Professor II position in the Informatics Department, University of Oslo.